
Saturn's rings cast shadows on the planet's cloud tops, providing a perfect backdrop for the brilliant sphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The tiny world's bright white surface results in part from a snow of material originating from the towering plume of icy particles at Enceladus' south pole. This image looks toward the leading side of Enceladus (504 kilometers, or 313 miles across). North is up. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera on June 28, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 281,000 kilometers (175,000 miles) from Enceladus. Image scale is about 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel. The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17216
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NASA ID
PIA17216
Date Created
April 2, 2018
Center
JPL
Media Type
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